Filed under: Developer, Internet, Photo, Web services
Backing up Flickr photos with Amazon S3
People are slowly but surely figuring
out what S3, Amazon's new "Simple Storage Service,"
is good for. Blogger and developer Matt Croydon has written a quick (25 lines!) Python script that automatically backs up his photos from
Flickr to S3. Cool. "After uploading 160 or so photos to Amazon, Croydon writes, "I owe them about a
penny." I think that putting raw resources like storage, bandwidth, and infrastructure behind a professional-grade
API for bargain-basement prices as Amazon has done is brilliant, and is going to spawn a lot of fascinating projects in
the near future.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
orangeguru said 1:25PM on 3-23-2006
I am really wondering who's Amazone's target audience here? For normal people this is too complicated and uninteresting - free webspace and homepage offers will satisfy them. Professionals? Hardly. If you need real storage space and performance you also want control. Most people rather go for dedicated root servers with unlimited traffic and raid systems.
Reply